The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 10
With this answer the messenger returned to Lilliput; and I (though the monarch of Blefuscu secretly offered me his gracious protection if I would continue in his service) hastened my departure, resolving never more to put confidence in princes.
Who acts: messenger, monarch, I, Emperor, my · What happens: return, offer, continue, hasten, resolve, put · To what, where: Lilliput, gracious protection, me, service, departure, more
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, monarch, I, Emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 answer | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 answer | det |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 messenger | det |
| 5 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Lilliput | case |
| 8 | Lilliput | Lilliput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 hastened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 I | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 hastened | nsubj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 offered | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 offered | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monarch | det |
| 15 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offered | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Blefuscu | case |
| 17 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 monarch | nmod |
| 18 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 19 offered | advmod |
| 19 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 I | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 offered | iobj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 protection | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 protection | amod |
| 23 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offered | obj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 continue | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 continue | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 continue | aux |
| 27 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 offered | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 service | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 service | nmod:poss |
| 30 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 continue | obl |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 32 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 departure | nmod:poss |
| 34 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hastened | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 resolving | punct |
| 36 | resolving | resolve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 hastened | advcl |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 more | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 resolving | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 put | mark |
| 40 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 resolving | advcl |
| 41 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 put | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 princes | case |
| 43 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 put | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the messenger | Lilliput | with this answer | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lilliput=Result | |||
| 2 | offer | past | the monarch of Blefuscu | Emperor's gracious protection | me | secretly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal protection=Theme | ||
| 3 | continue a condition, not said to happen | would | I | Emperor's service | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hasten | past | I | my departure | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent departure=Patient | ||||
| 5 | resolve | gerund | I not said here | more | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put | to-infinitive | I not said here | confidence | in princes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent confidence=Theme in prince=Destination | |||
| 7 | protect | Emperor | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | service | Emperor | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | depart | my | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/10/